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Even if you can't technically improve on perfection, it's damn impressive to see these folks try.
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The stories are told with such intimacy, such empathy, and such attention to detail, that it transcends labels and generalities. It's the story of these specific people, exceptionally small, but also exceptionally told.... This was a terrific show last year, it's even better this year.
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As was true in season one, the first thing to notice about Togetherness--in addition to its spectacularly talented cast--is the amount of sophisticated wit the writers manage to dredge from standard sitcom craziness, the exuberance they wring out of emotional pain and everyday sodden travail.
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It’s sadder and funnier, welling over with feeling. It’s insightful not just about marriage but friendship.... The cast is uniformly strong, but Ms. Lynskey is just staggering.
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The focus is never far from the very talented quartet at the show’s core: The assured second season offers the cast plenty of opportunities to demonstrate that they’ve got some of the best reaction faces in the business. There’s just enough plot to force the characters to glance at each other and alternately avoid each other’s glares and curiosity.
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In its second season, Mark and Jay Duplass's Togetherness blooms into a stirring study of modern parenting as an experiment in creation and imagination.
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A small pleasure. [19/26 Feb 2016, p.110]
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This season’s determination to be bleak and honest isn't as pleasurable. The series is very good at what it does, but I can’t help thinking that more Gonzaga, Peet and Gallagher--in upbeat story form--would go exceptionally well with less dire versions of the excellent Lynskey, Zissis and Duplass.
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Zissis and Peet pluck the heartstrings as Alex and Tina do the dance of the modern rom-com, often with different partners, but it's Brett and Michelle whose struggles to connect make Togetherness a little too real to be funny.
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Togetherness is a likable enough show about likable enough characters portrayed by very likable actors. Lynskey and Zissis, in particular, portray mundane and exhausting sadness so believably that you want to reach into your screen and give them a hug. But the same can’t be said of Togetherness as a whole.
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[The first season of ] Togetherness found something fresh and new to say about marriage, relationships and insecurity in the ‘10s. The problem is that season two starts by saying the exact same thing.
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Much of the new season’s happiness and levity is whimsical and spur-of-the-moment (and the moments of sojourn, reverie, and revelry are visually sumptuous). They are earned as much as the sadness is, though their time is so much more fleeting. What’s left is that most of the dark, awkward, painful, naval-gazing realness of the rest of the season fosters less of a sense of universal togetherness, and more of a desire to retreat away completely.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 21
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Mixed: 3 out of 21
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Negative: 2 out of 21
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Feb 21, 2016